Doctors at Children's Hospital of Yulin City said the toddler, who was admitted in early May, had "excreted" 21 nails in total, plus at least one steel pin, in the preceding month, though she didn't show signs of "uneasiness" and "eats and drinks as usual," reported Xinhua, which has followed the case closely.

Justin Teeguarden, senior research scientist with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and his team of government-funded researchers conclude that human exposure to BPA is extremely low and it's highly unlikely that the chemical could cause health effects in humans as it is efficiently metabolized and excreted.